July 17, 2015

A coalition of 10 organizations has filed an ethics complaint calling for an investigation into whether senators and their staff committed fraud when they submitted applications to the health insurance exchange in Washington, D.C.

Quote of the Day: "I'm waiting for a White House reporter to ask 'which Broadway Show will we be attending?'" — Media Critic Richard Grenell, watching the White House presser in which Press Secretary Josh Earnest discusses President Obama's upcoming trip to Manhattan this weekend with his daughters. The Observer "A silly, immature country, obsessed […]

(Steven Hayward) One thing I love about liberals is how they can't ever seem to make up their mind about whether Ronald Reagan was an ogre or a great man. This week he's a great man, because lo and behold with regard to Iran Obama is doing exactly what the Gipper did with the Soviet Union! Take E.J. Dionne's column yesterday, "Obama: Reaganite on Iran," which begins thus: When President Ronald Reagan

Amazon scored big sales with Prime Day, its first-ever attempt to create its own sales holiday to rival the post-Thanksgiving sales bump that includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The company reported that its Prime Day sales were actually bigger than Black Friday sales, even though they were limited to Prime members. But where Amazon failed was in capturing social buzz from consumers as… Read More

(John Hinderaker) If you haven't already seen it, this photo of the Marine facility in Chattanooga after it was shot up by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez tells you all you need to know about gun-free zones: Here in Minnesota, the legislature liberalized carry laws a decade or more ago. In response, most businesses–many in a fit of huffy self-righteousness–posted "guns prohibited" signs in accordance with the new law. Over the years those signs

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - When the city of Columbia temporarily banned guns around the Statehouse as the Confederate flag was lowered, it violated the U.S. Constitution and created a dangerous situation, a Lexington County man says in a lawsuit.

In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Richland County, attorneys for Walid ...

Hulu is considering an ad-free version of its streaming service, according to a new report from The Wall St. Journal on Thursday. The service could launch as early as this fall, and would be priced around $12 to $14 per month – higher than Hulu's ad-supported service today, which is $7.99 per month. At this price point, the service would not likely see a large number of… Read More

(Scott Johnson) Omri Ceren writes to elucidate the unfolding process in the Iran deal brought to us by President Obama. Omni's message explores the issue I noted yesterday here. This is important. Omni writes: Lead negotiator Wendy Sherman confirmed for journalists yesterday that the Obama administration will, over the next few days, pursue a binding United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) that will lift sanctions on Iran. The resolution was circulated yesterday

Japan's parliament voted on Thursday to grant its military the authority to fight in foreign conflicts for the first time since World War II, a move aimed in part at countering aggressive actions from China, the New York Times reports.

You know that four Marines were murdered Thursday at The Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a man identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. The feds have launched an official domestic terrorism investigation, Fox News is reporting. What you may have heard is that an ISIS-linked Twitter account may have sent a message ...More

(Paul Mirengoff) It's no scoop to say that both Israel and Saudi Arabia are alarmed by President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. But it's worth teasing out the difference in the primary concern of the two. In doing so, we can better appreciate just how bad the deal is. Israel is unhappy with the deal because it all but ensures that Iran will obtain nuclear weapons. Whether Iran does so in 10

CredSimple, a startup building a medical credentialing database, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to help healthcare and insurance companies manage their doctor networks. Bowery Capital led the round, with participation from Primary Venture Partners and a handful of angels. When a doctor gets a job at a new practice or hospital, he goes through a process called credentialing. It… Read More

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, who has spoken about the sexism she's faced in the corporate world, turned the tables a bit in a new video she recorded with Buzzfeed.

(Paul Mirengoff) I listened with disbelief last night as the media reported that investigators are searching for the motive behind the attack by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez on two military centers in Tennessee. Surely, the deeds tell us the motive. Res ipsa loquitur, as lawyers say. The interesting question is how Adbulazeez came to harbor his terrorist motive. Who, if anyone, inspired him? Who, if anyone, directed him? We don't know Abdulazeez's story

One of the explanations for Donald Trump's surging poll numbers goes like this: The base doesn't trust Republican leaders on immigration. This manifests in support for a man who tells it like it is. The problem with this is that the immigration schism on the right is largely about rhetoric. Almost everybody agrees we must secure the border, and even the […]

Because there exist only two kinds of watches – Apple Watches and all others – Chrono24 is addressing a pretty big market: high-end collectors of mechanical timepieces. The watch consignment and sales site just raised €21 million from Insight Ventures to open new offices in New York and Hong Kong and have even added a new feature called Trusted Checkout, a system that… Read More

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has written a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry saying it is "unacceptable" the United States has reached an agreement on Iran's nuclear program "while innocent Americans languish in the most brutal conditions of Iranian jail cells."

Nearly 200 House lawmakers have lined up behind a resolution opposing the recently signed Iran nuclear deal, according to a copy of the measure obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and congressional sources apprised of the situation.

(Scott Johnson) Ammo Grrrll returns with timely thoughts on NEGOTIATING 101. She writes: I have been married to Mr. Ammo Grrrll for 48 happy years. God forbid anything should happen to this marriage, but if it should, I want Barack Hussein Obama and John FibSwiftboat Kerry to be the attorneys for my husband. Me: I want the house in Arizona and both cars. Plus alimony of $10 million a month. In gold.

Nearly six in 10 voters say former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's natural instincts lean more toward hiding the truth, and a third say they lean more toward telling the truth, a new poll said.